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Jenn Ashworth

9. April 2010

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Jenn Ashworth speaks to Art and Things about books, literature and getting published. And drinking a lot.

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Submit poetry for the first Life is Beautiful book.

10. February 2010

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The first Life is Beautiful book will be a very limited, numbered print and we're working hard to make it a unique and luxurious artifact that people will enjoy holding as much as they will reading.

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Life is Beautiful + Free Speech one off show.

18. November 2009

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The night will feature a host of talented performers including; The Anti Poet - Paul Eccentric & Ollie Wilton, one of the only few poets to be disqualified from a slam! Also putting in a Special Appearance is Vinnie Gibbons The Bastard Attack Poet!!!

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ctrl.alt.shift unmasks corruption

11. November 2009

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Political activism zine ctrl.alt.shift have collaborated with a exciting assortment of writers, artists and other prominent British creatives to create a really amazing comic book, featuring a true stories about the horrors of corruption wordwide. We’ve read it. It’s wicked. Art and Things spoke to British writer and comic artist Woodrow Phoenix about his involvement in [...]

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Art and Things Spoken Word Evening-Tonight

17. June 2009

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8pm, Cha Cha Cha Cafe, Cassiobury Park, Free to Attend.

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A Well-Oiled Heart - Stefan Podsiadly

6. May 2009

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The heart needed to keep beating or else it wouldn’t power the rest. But blood rusts the cables like acid burns a leaf; the thing would rot from the inside out in a matter of days if he were not careful. The old man took a battered notebook, curled from sitting in his pocket, and laid it open on the table for reference.

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Stuff White People Like

22. March 2009

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You Don't Have to Be White To Be White

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Chris Killen

30. January 2009

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"It feels like a really exciting time for new writing, not so much on the 3-for-2 tables in Waterstone's, but on the internet -- on blogs and websites -- and in small press journals and anthologies. There are lots of ways to get your stuff out and read, for free, while waiting for those agents and publishers and competition judges and Granta editors to get back to you. "

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Burlesque is Dead

29. January 2009

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"Among other things I saw a naked woman, covered in blue paint I might add, put a wine bottle in a very uncomfortable place."

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Daffodils

24. September 2008

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Creative writing from Juliet Cochrane

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Pressures on a part time artist

8. September 2008

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Peter Bloxham writes about how it's not just you who has trouble being creative. Sometimes, especially for the beginner, it's hard just finding the time to settle down, after a day working a menial job to pay the bills, and get working on whats supposed to be 'your passion' when all you want is a slice of marmite on toast and a veg out on the sofa to your favourite tv show.....

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